Unbroken by Kay Camden

Author:Kay Camden [Camden, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kay Camden
Published: 2020-08-31T12:14:04+00:00

The eagle pursued the falcon into the trees, noting the unnatural flap of one wing, an extra fast stroke working double to compensate for the inadequate range to match the other. An injury to his advantage. Her flight was erratic, dodging limbs she should have soared over, banking too late for obstacles he had already avoided. His plan to drive her back to the house so his human could lock her in a cage was quickly failing. She was too nimble, too hard to predict. The added complication of keeping her alive made his attacks too hesitant to be fruitful. If his human wanted her dead, it would already be finished.

He’d chase her to exhaustion, then. The night would be long. His human would not be pleased.

Up she darted suddenly, breaking through the cover of limbs into open sky. Her silver moon coloration ebbed, turning her night-dark, the outline of body merging with black sky. The eagle pushed power into flight to overtake. A view from above would put her outline against earth and give him better sight of a creature about to vanish before his eyes. This was not a familiar hunt.

Just as he regained vision of her, she dived into the trees. He followed—stronger, faster, anticipating her angle and meeting her in the air. She flapped against him, her eye on his. He could’ve killed her. She knew this and spared him from her talons as he had spared her of his. She drifted to a low limb and folded her wings—one flat against her, the other curved at an odd angle. He chose a tree nearby, catching the limb near the trunk where it would support his weight.

He called out. She tilted her head but did not return the call. She was confused, just like he’d been on his first flight. Unsure where to go, what to do, how to recover her human. He could not help her with that. His human floated far away, too underpowered and used up to reclaim his space and shed the eagle. If he didn’t have a fledgling thunderbird to watch, he’d be out hunting demons for more nights than his human would have ever allowed.

Soon he’d lead her back to the boy to be locked up, but not yet. He’d sit with her, make her see he was the one to follow. He stretched one wing, then the other, and cast his view across the forest. Night creatures scared away by the chase tested the ground below them, sensing danger, unsure if it was directed toward them or for others. Right now, the falcon appeared too disoriented to hunt even upperworld prey, and he had never bothered. There were too many more satisfying creatures to hunt.

Eagle and falcon watched each other and waited. The sky opened into great depths, revealing white moon and two bright, brave stars. Clouds whisked by and wind called through the trees. The night creatures resumed their business below. The falcon settled her weight on the limb in rest, the language of a truce.

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